Abu Yahya al-Libi

Abu Yahya al-Libi (1963-4 June 2012), born Mohamed Hassan Qaid, was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and Al-Qaeda. He was killed in a CIA drone strike at Mir Ali, Pakistan.

Biography
Mohamed Hassan Qaid was born in Murzuk (Marzaq) in Libya around 1963, and learned to speak Urdu, Pashto, and Arabic. He joined the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and Al-Qaeda, and fought in the Afghanistan War alongside the Taliban. He was captured by the US Army during the fighting, but escaped from Bagram in a breakout in 2005.

Called a "warrior, poet, scholar, pundit, and military commander" and "...heir apparent to Osama bin Laden in terms of taking over the entire global jihadist movement" by the CIA, Al-Libi was a talking head on the media. He was an official on Al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee, one of its "politicians".

Death
On 4 June 2012, a CIA drone fired four missiles at a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region in the city of Mir Ali. Al-Libi and fifteen other militants were killed in the explosion, weakening Al-Qaeda.